Pic's from the Pond, part 1 
About 20 years ago I was sitting in my Cadott office when it occurred to me that it would be very nice to have a duck pond in front of my office window.
So I talked to Bob Josephic, a friend from the Cadott Chamber of Commerce and my Lions club sponsor about getting one of his large excavators out to my place for a day of digging ponds.
After a day of digging I had half a dozen ponds dug around the farm.
And as a bonus, since they were dug 20 feet deep, we also had a half dozen piles of gravel available for building my parking lot and improving a few trails.
We have a naturally high water table here so the ponds all filled in by the end of the summer.
It was impressive how many frogs found the ponds very quickly and within weeks the banks were thick with frogs and the night’s silence was filled with the song of Leopard and Bull Frogs.
By the next spring the sharp banks were leveling off and wetland vegetation was showing up along the banks. Some of my friends thought that I would need to plant wetland plants here but I was confident that wildlife would bring in the seeds, and they did.
Fifteen years later and I have yet to see a duck on this pond, just an old hound dog named Drake who likes to spend his summer swimming and the joyous chorus of frogs every night.
A while ago I mentioned to Nick that I would like to get some pictures of the big Whitetail buck that the neighbors have told me they see wandering through my yard occasionally. And maybe even that bear that keeps eating all of my apples by the office door.
So he set up his game camera out front by the pond and started collecting piles of pictures which I will be sharing from time to time.
Let me know if you recognize any of these visitors.
